NEXXT 3.0 released

It's been half a year of diligent work, and i'm happy to say NEXXT studio 3.0* is here.

*i've added "studio" to its name in hopes it at least tells passersby what genre of tool it is, without being a mouthful. Colloquially i'm going to continue referring to it as "nexxt". 

The codebase has gone from 165 to 209 thousand lines, and the latest changelog makes up 1/4 of the full document, so i won't go into full detail here on all the changes.  You can view the full changelog in the .zip, watch the features trailer for a tutorialesque introduction to most of the major additions (see below), or get the gist of it from this simplified list:

• PNG-8 import/export support
• Pan tool on map; slow and fast
• Main and spare camera; command to switch between them
• Place "tile quads" tool for placing 4 of the same tile in a 2x2 configuration. 
  Also works on tile selections and metatiles
• x8 tile grid ("double block", hotkey P
• CHR Editor: 3x3 and 4x4 tile edit modes
• Colour Rose [F9]; a sort of colour wheel that maps system colours as "rose petals". 
  Combined colour picking and colour harmony analysis tool.
• Metasprite Animator [F5]:
  tracker-style animation tool that lets you sequence animations and animation commands
• Map tileplacement tools:
  -Place aligned (places tiles aligned to the current tile selection box)
  -Replace (replaces just the tile ID:s you began the placement on)
  -Replace aligned (the two above combined)
  -Tile bucket (acts like a flood-fill bucket, but for tiles on map, instead of pixels)
  -Tile bucket, noncontiguous (fills all same-ID:d tile entries irrespective of connectedness)
• Tile bucket extras toolbox 
• Flip scene horizontally / vertically
• Wide viewport mode
• Select nametable of top-left camera corner
• Select all nametables current camera intersects
• Snap camera to selection
• NTSC Overscan guide (hotkey O)
• Tileswitch mode (MMC2, MMC4, and any neomapper using the same behaviour)
• Anti-Jag drawing
• Commandline options
• Startup default .chr file
• Start new instance with options dialogue
• Cursor indicators for bucket & selection
• Sprite sorting actions
• PPU mask / emphasis presets
• "memory buttons"; repeated clicks re-engages the last clicked button in the button group.
• Import PPU dump with options dialogue
• New exit dialogue
• A long list of improvements to old features
• Various bugfixes

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